Threads Replies Last Post 313 Pages: <<  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  >>   Vista and Wireless All fine and connects to secured wireless. Neighbour comes home and switches his on which is netgear unsecured. My pc will always connect to the netgear. I went to wireless properties of netgear and unticked box to always connect to netgear when available and there was another I unticked which cant remember. Switch off netgear and it connects to my router. As soon as netgear is fl... 4 08.07.2007 16:33:05 Change the way users log on or off Hello, In Win XP there was a setting in User Accounts that was called "change the way users log on or off" where, on a re-start, you could have all PC users listed or only the last logged on user. Is there a similar setting in Vista? Frank K ... 8 08.07.2007 17:55:34 Highlighted items When scrolling through lists, the highlight bar is a very faint blue. Tried changing it at Appearance Settings > Advanced > Selected Items. This seems to work in Explorer, but not in Control Panel > Add/Remove programs. Is there some other setting I should change? Thanks! -- How come you never see a headline like: PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY? ....Jay Leno... 1 08.07.2007 17:35:57 defragment If Vista's defragment runs as a service, how does one disable it, or turn it off? I went to task manager and looked at all the services but could not find defragment. Does it have another name in task manager? -- leave well enough alone... 3 08.07.2007 17:32:25 Change links under "Favorite Links" in Windows Explorer pane? [woops -- originally posted in wrong newsgroup!] In the upper-left pane in Windows Explorer underneath 'Favorite Links' I have links to Documents Pictures Music Recently Changed Searches Public How can I change the links that display here? Thanks ... 3 08.07.2007 17:29:09 Always have top-menu underlines on? When I first load up Windows Explorer (and some other programs), I notice that the first-letter underlines on the top-level menu are not turned on (The "F" of File, the "E" of Edit, etc). I know I can manually turn them on by pressing the Alt key. Is there a way to have them come on automatically? Thanks. ... 2 08.07.2007 17:21:13 microsoft.public.windows.vista.general - made me rich!! Since posting a couple of messages to this group last week, the notifications of my Lottery winnings in Europe keep coming in! I've got to be the luckiest sob on the earth cause I won the Norwegian and British Lottery and I didn't even buy a ticket! Now THATS luck! Apparently all I have to do is send a few thousand in "taxes" and I can claim my prize! THANKS microsoft.public.windows... 5 08.07.2007 17:13:32 Webcam Hi folks, I have the Microsoft Lifecam VX1000 which worked fine on XP Media Centre. Upgraded to VIsta a while ago without any real issues, but tried to install the lifecam and it doesn't like it. It will install fine (updated software from MS hardware site for Vista). Start the lifecam software, the dashboard opens followed by "connecting" then "LifeCame.exe has stopped working" blah b... 1 08.07.2007 16:58:09 Vist & Quickbooks Hi, Tax Time again........ I am trying to install Quickbooks but it will not let me :o( I turned off MacAfee - disconnected the net as per QB instructions. Put in the disk and then when it went to install I got the message:- Setup cannot find /windows/command/setup and then Quickbooks could not be installed completely Help!!! its Tax Time!!!!!! Regards, Marsden -- marsden... 4 08.07.2007 16:49:56 Windows Update Deleted All My Email! Okay, I know that isn't /quite/ correct. But it's pretty darn close. I did a number of Windows updates this morning, and after a reboot, one of the messages I saw, several times, was about Reindexing Email (or something like that). It tried several times, and then said it couldn't find the emails, and after a couple more tries, ended up with Windows Mail and an empty Inbox. (I have my Do... 9 08.07.2007 16:26:51 Preperation for NEW MainBoard & RAM & Everything Upgradeing I will be upgrading my system board from an Athlon 64 3200 to a DualCore Athlon x2 5000 system motherboard and new memory and new peripherals. Is there a standard way to upgrade my system with out having to go through reinstalling Vista Home Premium 64bit Vaersion. In other words After I upgrade the MainBoard nad components can I just do a reinstall of my copy of Vista 64Bit Home Premi... 2 08.07.2007 16:25:38 Quick Launch icons missing ... Vista Home Premium - at some point in the last 24 hours, the icons on my Quick launch toolbar have stopped being displayed - the appropriate short cuts are in the correct folder (and work when I launch them directly) but are not appearing on the toolbar - any ideas?... 6 08.07.2007 16:21:33 SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC Ok as I am sure most people know at this stage that for some reason with Dell 9200 and XPS computers that are using the above audio card, has problems with the playback. It is slow to start and it freezes. I wanted to know is there going to be an update for the driver?? ... 7 08.07.2007 16:19:12 Move Documents Folder Hi there, I would like to move the "Documents" folder to another location (a different hard disk). In XP this was quite simple, but I do not understand how to do it in Vista. By the way, should I move also Pictures, Videos and Music? Thanks... 4 08.07.2007 16:10:00 backup to Maxtor problem Hi, This is a bit of a repost so I am sorry about that but no replies last time and I am getting desperate. I have Vista Home edition on a laptop with a Maxtor HD attached via the USB 2 port. I have tried using the backup program that comes with vista to back up all my files but when I have the option to select the backup drive the Maxtor doesn't appear. Only the C drive. If I look in ... 6 08.07.2007 15:57:56 Windows Explorer oddness When I first got my Vista computer I noticed in Windows Explorer that the plus signs ("+") in the left pane that in XP indicate the presence of subfolders were now replaced with little triangle symbols. But now I notice I have plus signs again. Any idea what's going on? Is there a setting to set this? Thanks. ... 15 08.07.2007 15:31:41 Connection acitivity icon Hello , i have a problem with the connection icon on the taskbar (notification area beside the clock ) the icon changes to two monitors with a earth little icon on top of them when i connect to the net but the the net i want them to flash when there is an activity and yes i already turned on the acitivity animation but no luck and it's still the same like it's functioning curreclty , can... 5 08.07.2007 15:05:22 Lost help and support i have recently lost help and support. Whenever i click on any of the blue suggestions i.e how to improve performance, i get a notice saying 'internet explorer cannot download/from windows. Internet Explorer was not able to open this internet site.The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.Please try again later'. This has only happened since this morning and i have not... 2 08.07.2007 15:00:01 Vista Home or Ultimate? Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista Ultimate vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home wireless or other complex network. ... 11 08.07.2007 14:26:48 Media player Media player in Vista continues to play sound even after you close it. You have to press stop first and then close media player. In the same way, when you open a media clip, it will only play ot's sound while media player doesn't open. You will have to open m.p manually to see the video which was playing on the background somewhere without showing. Is this normal for Vista? I haven't fou... 5 08.07.2007 14:24:13 My devices wont sync Hi guys, I need your help desperately. When I connect devices such as Iriver Clix, flash memory, my phone, they show up in My computer but not in the sync list /header in windows media player. They also do not show in sync center. What is also unusual, is that window media player flashes a quick "iriver clix detected" when I connect it, but then it dosnt show up in the sync header. ... 1 08.07.2007 14:06:00 Can I change shortcut? Hello, I have recently bought a new laptop... I am a big MS Office user, and I often use the shortcut Alt-F11 to open the VBA editor in Office applications. But the 'Web-Camera' application UVC 1.7.115.0213 (made by Chicory) has co-opted that shortcut, so anytime I try to use the VB Editor, I get a lovely image of me toiling away at my desk instead. I would like to take the shortcut aw... 5 08.07.2007 13:54:00 800706BA） My computer is using Window Vista Biz version。 When it started。 A problem window is popup。 and the screen will splash some times，then I found the theme service was be disabled。 In the “Problem Reports and Solutions” application， I can found a new item （Background intelligent transfer service）。 If i run “windows update”。The problem is occur again。 The error... 3 08.07.2007 13:52:03 Windows Backup And Restore Tool ERROR 0x8007001f i am trying to backup my hard drive to my other hard drive, it completes about 60% fine but then i get an error and i don't know why has it's only backing up my C: drive and it's already done 60% so why fail now? It says "A device attached to the system is not functioning(ox8007001F)" I don't have any removable media attached, the only removable media is this PseudoDrive which aint eve... 1 08.07.2007 13:02:00 Windows update Error code 8000FFFF I've recently been receiving the following error message in Vista: Windows could not search for updates: Error code found 8000FFF I've disabled all firewalls and still get this message. I have disabled all spyware as well. I can't think of what the problem could be. Can someone help? Thanks. ... 3 08.07.2007 12:42:01 313 Pages: <<  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  >>